Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 August 2002. War memorial.
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- hushed-ashlar-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 August 2002
- Type
- War memorial
- Address
- Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen War Memorial, Ammanford
- OS grid reference
- SN 702 121
- Coordinates
- 51.79315, -3.88333
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen War Memorial is a granite structure featuring a bronze statue of an infantryman on a high pedestal, created by W.J. Williams of Brynamman. The statue, which is larger than life, depicts the soldier with his head bowed and hands clasped over a reversed rifle. The pedestal has battered sides and is inscribed with the names of those who served in both the Great War and the Second World War. The main inscription on the left side reads, "O barch ac anrhydedd i ddynion Gawauncaegurwen a'r ardal roddasant eu bywyd yn aberth dros rhyddid eu gwlad yn y Rhyfel Mawr 1914-1919." The memorial features a moulded cornice with a semi-circle above the center of the cornice on each face. It has a large plinth with a coved top moulding and a plain base, all resting on a bottom step made of rock-faced stone. The memorial is enclosed by an iron railing made by Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss of Wolverhampton.
Local climate
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen War Memorial sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings